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Accompanying the big A

Posted: March 20th 2010 21:50. Last modified: March 21st 2010 09:33

In which I proffer my experience in the service of the East European mafia as a model for helping us help the Aricept generation.

The secret language of doctors

Posted: January 20th 2010 14:01. Last modified: January 20th 2010 14:12

Why and how the 17th century Portuguese tropical medicine specialist, Aleixo de Abreu, tried to prevent proles from reading his cure for scurvy.

Solving Africa’s woes with a simple parlour game

Posted: January 2nd 2010 12:56. Last modified: January 2nd 2010 13:00

Desultory bar philosophising on the socio-economic function of Secret Santa.

Font de Mora, right about small screens causing myopia in children?

Posted: December 15th 2009 22:59. Last modified: December 15th 2009 23:05

Nearsightedness is increasing, and there aren’t many other reasonable explanations.

Discovered: Cataloonia’s true fet diferencial

Posted: October 27th 2009 15:45. Last modified: November 18th 2009 16:14

It’s not what you steal, it’s the way that you steal it.

Miraculous almond tree cures eczema

Posted: May 1st 2009 09:06. Last modified: May 1st 2009 09:07

And it’s free.

Chest problems?

Posted: October 23rd 2008 11:54. Last modified: October 23rd 2008 12:26

Take Goig Heroin Elixir:

From La Vanguardia anno 1912. Their current principal source of immoral earnings, apart from editorial-related state subsidy and tax-(ahem-)efficient paid-for journalism, is, of course, brothel advertising. I seem to recall it worked out at around €1M pa, but now most things do. The first ever front page of this then conservative, Catholic [...]

Spanish funeral service

Posted: May 26th 2008 22:45. Last modified: May 26th 2008 10:56

Spanish insurers Fiatc have a fairly grisly reputation for health provision care in general. Here’s how they deal with you once you’re dead: “When we arrived at the crematorium we were taken in through the rear entrance, down a long corridor, where we passed someone else laying in a coffin, a woman walking down the [...]

Scorpiano

Posted: May 10th 2008 21:18.

Samir over at View from Fez says that around 100 kids die annually from scorpion bites in Morocco. They’re quite common in Spain too. Here’s one in the gardens of Can Ferrero in Barcelona’s Zona Franca district that scared the hell out of me:

Killer cure

Posted: May 9th 2008 19:25.

Stricken by Barcelona belly, I’ve been trying out this 19th century cholera cure. It’s better with rice, but I’m still surprised more people didn’t die. (Sublimated sulphur is used by modern-day lepers, says the chemist, so that wasn’t a problem.)

Cholera cure

Posted: March 16th 2005 15:21. Last modified: February 27th 2009 12:50

“We print this recipe, not out of self-interest, since we are giving it away free, being inspired solely by the conviction that we have of its efficacy and to see if we can be of assistance to our fellow men.”

Municipal doping

Posted: June 26th 2004 22:12. Last modified: June 11th 2007 14:15

Usually when the Olympics come to town there’s a big clean-up, during which junkies with little muscles get kicked out to make way for junkies with big muscles. That’s what happened in Barcelona in 92, but from this op-ed piece by Costas Iordanidis in Kathimerini it sounds like the Greek government is not having it [...]

Cocaine: long sentence coming up

Posted: April 30th 2004 00:05.

This excerpt from a court statement made on 1928/1/11 is taken from Paco Villar’s Historia y Leyenda del Barrio Chino (1997):

americans have more words for snow than eskimos

Posted: March 17th 2004 00:24.

Here.

medicaments

Posted: December 13th 2003 15:15.

Molt bé, que DocMorris, una empresa holandesa, pot vendre medicaments sense recepta en línia. Desafortunadament no ens beneficiarà com a consumadors perquè, gràcies al seu model de alt volum/baix preu, Espanya segueix sent un dels millors països europeus per comprar drogues legals:

Font: IMS (2002)
Polònia és interessant. L’estat no subvenciona les marques conegudes i es ven [...]

viking doodt 300kg haai met blote handen

Posted: October 24th 2003 08:48.

O kijk! daar komt de ijsman aan. Stoer, he, maar wij gebruiken meer drugs dan Erik.

The power of love

Posted: September 28th 2003 00:19. Last modified: June 14th 2005 19:23

These two energetic logos are on one of my favourite day-off wanders: from the Plaça d’Espanya through the old backstreets of working class Sants up to Collblanc, then a slalom down through the drab poverty of l’Hospitalet, finishing up with wander down the ceramic-ridden old road back to the Plaça d’Espanya.
The first logo adorns [...]

German multinationals

Posted: September 6th 2003 22:20. Last modified: January 1st 2005 14:34

In May I posted a Dutch translation (1, 2) of an article by Vic prof, Manuel Llanas, describing the influence of German printers in Catalunya in the late C15th and early C16th. Technology transfer from Germany to Catalunya slowed subsequently, due less to religious and political rivalries than to the relatively slow progress of capitalism [...]

Dr Andreu en z’n toverpillen

Posted: June 4th 2003 17:11. Last modified: September 5th 2008 14:20

Foto van eBay. Hierop staat dat hij een fabriek en/of kantoor had in Brussel. Graag doorgeven als je er iets van afweet.
Een man loopt de apotheek binnen en zegt dat z’n keel zeer doet. Zegt de apotheker: “Ik heb wat pillen van Dr Andreu, ze doen het erg goed.” “Nee, nee, die niet.” “En waarom [...]

Boom boom

Posted: May 29th 2003 14:28. Last modified: November 19th 2004 23:06

“When I start singing you go out on the balcony.”

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On this day

Barcelona

  • March 21 1848 

    En Barcelona como en otras partes comienza hoy la primavera, que en honor de la verdad no suele ser aqui la estacion mas hermosa del año. Cierto que ya los árboles comienzan á echar hoja, y que la linda y olorosa violeta alfombra los jardines y ribazos, y que le hacen cortejo otras flores; per...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 21 de març de 1918 En aquest paĂ­s tenim un costum molt curiĂłs. Quan ens trobem, al carrer, dues persones, cara a cara, no tenim, a penes, res a dir-nos. Però, una vegada acomiadats i fets set o vuit passos, se’ns ocorren tot d’una una sèrie de coses urgents a dir a la persona que hem deixat fa un moment. [...]
  • 21 de març de 1919 Inici de la primavera. Biblioteca. Tot traduint Renard penso que Ă©s mĂ©s important dominar un ofici qualsevol que posseir una curiositat dilatada, vastĂ­ssima. La curiositat es pot improvisar; un ofici, no. La curiositat Ă©s superficialment agradable, però deixa una certa buidor amarga per dintre. Un ofici Ă©s monòton i pesat, però tĂ© moments d’una voluptuositat [...]

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